America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 238 The target this time is in Europe

   Little Laura was a little surprised that Abel had found a designer for "Lauren's Flower".

   is a little-known female designer named Zaha Hadid.

   This female designer named Zaha Hadid has a private studio and is about 50 years old this year.

   On an estate that hasn't been knocked down on 81 acres.

  Little Laura watched Abel discussing with each other.

   "My God, Mr. Smith, according to your plan. The high-energy cement and steel bars that need to be used will be astronomical."

   "It is possible to build a skyscraper, but it may not necessarily use so much steel and cement."

   The speaker is architect Zaha Hadid.

  Zaha Hadid in 2001 now.

  Her fame is not that big yet. Has not yet been dubbed the "Devil of Architectural Design".

  At this time, Zaha Hadid was just a well-known but controversial designer in the architectural design field.

  Before 2001, she only had four designs.

  One is a fire station in the town of Weil on the banks of the Rhine in Germany.

   There is also a Rosenthal Center for Modern Art in Cincinnati, USA.

   A parking lot in Strasbourg, France.

   and a ski resort in Innsbruck, Austria.

  These places and buildings are not well-known just by looking at their names.

   They are only in the industry, known for their outrageous designs, and super exaggerated difficulty of construction.

  But as long as ordinary people who have seen these buildings see what they look like.

   A cultured person might use some poems, or even come up with a prose, to praise them.

   People who are uneducated, or who have a blunt personality like Anne Hathaway.

  See these buildings designed by Zaha Hadid.

   Those who speak Chinese probably just say "Fuck".

  The one who speaks English is probably "fxxk".

  This master of deconstruction of modern architecture, the designs she handles are all outrageous and graceful in terms of lines.

  In terms of construction difficulty and construction cost, without exception, the relevant civil engineering dogs will call Fake.

  Little Laura didn't understand this.

   She is a smart girl, she knows even if she doesn't know Zaha Hadid.

  Abel was able to find Zaha Hadid, so there must be a reason for him.

  Little Laura didn't chatter like other women, or ask curiously beside her.

  She just smiled and listened to the conversation between Abel and Zaha Hadid.

  Even if Little Laura has dissatisfaction or doubts in her heart, she will only do so at the right time.

  Or if there are only two people, then propose to Abel appropriately.

  Little Laura heard Abel say to Zaha Hadid:

"I know what you said. Ms. Hadid, what I want is a unique house that doesn't exist in the world. I also know that the cost of making it appear will be very exaggerated. I have already prepared for this. Just tell me if you can design it."

"of course can."

   Zaha Hadid hardly thought about it.

  “. Like your request, there is a solution in terms of civil engineering and construction.”

  Zaha Hadid drew a small hill in the middle of 81 acres of land on simple grass paper.

  Zhaha surrounded the hill in a circle, and then said: "The area of ​​the top of this small hill is about 250 square meters."

   "The circle I surrounded is about 4,000 square meters."

   "According to Mr. Smith's idea. Then we can irrigate all the reinforced concrete in this circle, and build it to the same level as the hill."

   “That way, you get a man-made platform of more than 4,000 square meters.”

  Abel looked at Zaha Hadid's sketch, and he found that the circle basically encloses the entire hill from its foot.

   That is to say, if you really want to pile up, you have to pile up from the foot of the hill to the top of the mountain.

   With reinforced concrete, there are countless building materials.

  The cost here does not require much architectural knowledge, and ordinary people would think it is very exaggerated when they think about it.

   But Abel had other considerations. He smiled and said, "Give me a design drawing and a calculation of the engineering cost."

  Zaha Hadid nodded: "No problem. But even if you don't adopt it, my studio will still charge money."

   "Of course." Abel smiled and said, "It won't be a penny."

  Zaha Hadid smiled, "Then my studio and I will be happy to help you."

  Zaha Hadid was sent away.

   As soon as she left, little Laura said softly:

   "This Ms. Zaha Hadid, I have never heard of her name."

  Abel knew what little Laura meant, and he had already prepared for it.

   "Edward," Abel called.

  Edward came over immediately, holding a portfolio in his hand.

  Abel took the portfolio from Edward and gave it to little Laura.

   "Here are four works designed by Zaha Hadid, some photos of them."

  Little Laura took it curiously, not knowing what Abel meant.

  But when she and Abel took the boat and returned to Manhattan halfway.

  Little Laura understood what Abel meant.

  Because of these Zaha Hadid designs, they look too beautiful, too artistic, too design.

  Everything fell into the eyes of little Laura, which made her amazed.

   When the two went ashore, little Laura also agreed in her heart to Zaha Hadid as the designer of her and Abel's future love nest.

   spent the whole day with little Laura.

  The next day is Monday.

daytime.

  Little Laura went to class.

   Anne Hathaway filmed a night scene the day before yesterday. When Abel and Little Lauren went out to play yesterday, Anne made up for the day at home.

  Little Laura is going to school today.

  Annie is also going to Queens to shoot a movie.

  Abel had to be free, thinking that he hadn’t cut leeks for almost a month.

  The leeks on the international market have recuperated for a month.

   is also fat enough to be harvested.

  He came to the Smith Building where Smith Capital is located at noon.

  As soon as he arrived at the company, he went directly to CEO David Mellon.

   "Call a hundred traders with the best energy." Abel said:

   "Tell them that the king of the Kingdom of Smith is going to lead his knights to battle again."

   "Oh ~ YES!" David raised his hands and jumped very high, looking very excited.

  David went out to gather the manpower, and Abel waited in the office for about ten minutes.

  David came in excitedly to inform him that everything was ready.

   This speed is so fast, it is estimated that the employees of Smith Capital gathered together as soon as they heard this summoning order.

  Abel came outside immediately.

   "Knights! Your king is about to lead you to fight in the territory of money, and to lead you in the world of capital!"

  David Mellon stood on the high platform and started his very routine speech again.

"Now!"

   "Hurr your King—Hurr!"

   David Mellon was greeted with enthusiastic cheers.

  Amidst the cheers.

   Abel smiled and raised a finger, and the hundred traders who were picked out immediately stopped cheering.

  Abel took the microphone handed over by David, under the overall atmosphere of a little middle school.

  Abel couldn't help but make some synthesis.

   He laughed and said—

   "Want a bonus?"

   "Want a better income?"

   "Want more dollars?"

   "Go ahead, I put them all on the computer in front of you."

   "Now, right now, right now!"

   "Get to work!"

   After Abel waved his hand.

   These elites, who are almost all Ivy League graduates, quickly returned to their seats and sat down, just like the pirates in One Piece who went out to sea to grab Onepiece.

   They looked up, like elementary school children looking at their teacher, looking at Abel, their King Smith.

  Abel turned his back to them, he was looking at the financial information on the screen wall, and he was picking the lucky one.

   "Just pick..."

   "USD/NOK!"

  Abel randomly picked a "lucky guy".

  Norway is a Nordic country.

   Among the five Nordic countries, the economy and currency are relatively strong.

   Its overall plate is not bad. On the information wall of the screen, Abel also saw that the currency of this country has fluctuated greatly in the past few days.

   Which made him set his sights on this lucky guy.

   Talent tells him what to do next.

Abel smiled and said: "Do more, let us help the lovely Americans and Norwegians, so that the US dollar can be exchanged for more Norwegian kroner. This will make it easier for Americans to travel to Norway and Norwegians can also earn money. American dollars, let's do the best of both worlds."

   Whether it is short or long.

  As long as you can make money, the traders at Smith Capital listened to Abel’s instructions with maximum listening.

  Abe glanced again at the real-time exchange rate on the screen wall, USD/NOK: 7.6049.

   "Buy 100,000 lots first, hold long positions, pay attention to consumption offset!" Abel said.

   After he gave the transaction order.

  The “knights” of Smith Capital get to work.

   The plate of this currency pair is obviously not as big as USD/JPY or USD/GBP.

  Norway's economy is not comparable to that of the United Kingdom or Neon.

   With the rapid influx of funds from Abel, the exchange rate of USD/NOK rose rapidly.

  Just two hours.

   Its price has already reached the point of 7.6111.

   That is, one dollar can be exchanged for 7.6111 Norwegian krone.

   There is no doubt that this is an appreciation of the dollar, and it is going too much.

   But for NOK, it has depreciated.

   On the surface, Smith Capital has already made a floating profit of 61 points at this time.

  If you only look at the number of floating profit points, you can indeed say the same.

  However, the increase in these points is actually a large amount of funds invested by Smith Capital, because it is doing long orders in US dollars, which led to the rise.

  If Smith Capital chooses to close all positions and throw them away at this time.

  It is impossible to keep this exchange rate unchanged after throwing away huge funds.

   Floating profit points will definitely fall accordingly.

  After all the long positions of Smith Capital are closed and sold, it is estimated that the exchange rate will even drop to a lower level than when he bought it.

  The two are offset.

   Don't talk about making money, you may even lose money.

  Normal investment banks would be very cautious when doing this kind of operation above this number.

   Unless there is really a big market, such as the previous black swan market like the USD/JPY.

  If there is no big market, or an international black swan event.

   USD/NOK is a currency with a small plate, no one dares to spend such funds at once.

  If it is the normal operation of those big investment banks.

  That is all cautious. If you want to short or long a country's currency, you need to slowly hold a small amount of positions in multiple times, and then sell and leave the market at the right time.

  Only Abel is the one who relies on talent to operate. How dare you act so recklessly.

   To be talented is to be willful.

  Smith Capital’s follow-up funds are still entering and building positions one after another.

  Abel asked the traders and David to keep an eye on the market.

  He was going back to the office for a cup of coffee.

  David, who had been watching the market closely, suddenly shouted: "Boss, someone has entered the market."

An hour ago.

   Neon, Tokyo.

  Neon Bank, in the central bank building.

  Akihiko Kuroda sipped his coffee, with one hand in his pocket, walking around among hundreds of elite traders at work.

  Akihiko Kuroda belongs to a special economic action group of the Neon Central Bank.

  The so-called Special Economic Action Group is actually the investment institution of the Neon Central Bank.

  Mainly responsible for the central bank's investment activities, including long and short positions, arbitrage, equity, global macro, insurance, absolute return, momentum, multi-strategy, etc.

  Simply put, the so-called special economic action group is the group responsible for earning profits for the Neon Central Bank from the international market.

  At the same time, it also has the responsibility of stabilizing the exchange rate of the Neon country and the domestic economic situation of the Neon country.

   There are many groups like Akihiko Kuroda, and his group is just one of the more outstanding and elite economic groups.

  The central banks of most countries also have such organizations.

  They are also in a similar role to Akihiko Kuroda's team, responsible for international interests for their central banks and countries.

  The foreign exchange, futures, insurance and stock transactions of the central banks in the world are all executed by such organizations.

  Including the rabbit side, there are also some similar personnel.

   These people can also be called the national team.

  Sometimes even those consortiums in the United States will take on such a role.

  That is, it generally requires the Federal Reserve to organize and even provide funds.

  Then the financial capitalists in the United States will end up hypocritical.

   Who is the central bank of the United States, it is a private bank.

   As one of the leaders of the national team members of the Neon Central Bank, Akihiko Kuroda is actually of average ability.

  Many senior executives, or the elites of Neon Bank know this.

  Akihiko Kuroda can act as the team leader because he has a good brother.

   Who called his elder brother Nishihiko Kuroda, who is the current president of Neon Bank.

  Everyone else knew that he was able to climb to this position because he had a good brother from a good family background.

   This is normal in Neon. Family background, connections, and nepotism are far more important than ability in Neon.

  But Akihiko Kuroda didn’t think so. He felt that he could be the team leader because of his ability.

   Apart from his elder brother, his subordinates and friends have always praised him in this way.

  In addition to working for more than a year, everything went smoothly.

  Akihiko Kuroda has always felt that he is a financial genius who is one in a million.

   When Abel placed Smith Capital entry USD/NOK.

  Akihiko Kuroda was happily drinking coffee when suddenly one of his subordinates shouted loudly:

   "Master Kuroda, come and take a look. Among the rice animal funds we are concerned about, one of them has been captured by us."

   Akihiko Kuroda was taken aback for a moment, and walked over quickly.

   "Nani?! Where is it? Do you know which rice animal consortium's funds?"

"Look. We tracked it down. This fund has just entered USD/NOK in a big way. This currency pair has risen by more than 60 points in just two hours! This plate has now reached more than 5 billion U.S. dollars from the original five billion U.S. dollars. Over $10 billion!"

  Akihiko Kuroda frowned.

  The plate went from more than five billion US dollars to more than 10 billion US dollars.

  This represents the other party, and it is likely that billions of dollars have been invested in a short period of time.

  So confident?

   Is this a short-term trade or a long-term trade?

   If it is short-term trading, this is too risky.

  Such a large amount of funds into a currency pair with a small plate, if it is long-term, it is okay, if it is short-term, it is really a big risk.

   "Master Kuroda? What are we going to do now. Do we want to target it?"

   His men asked loudly.

  Although he is an idiot, Akihiko Kuroda is also a student who graduated from the Finance Department of Dongda University.

  It’s hard to say whether a student is a top student or not.

  But Akihiko Kuroda has no shortage of knowledge in the financial field.

  Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to be the team leader just by relying on his family background.

  Akihiko Kuroda knows that anything can happen in the foreign exchange market.

  Sometimes the market is already very good. When you are shorting, you just encounter a sharp drop in the currency, and you can harvest and leave the market.

  But often an accidental event causes the exchange rate to rise suddenly, many giants enter the market, and then the good situation that could have been profitable is instantly destroyed.

  This kind of thing is very common in the foreign exchange market, and Akihiko Kuroda himself has experienced it.

   Trading on the foreign exchange market.

   No matter how cautious you are, you can't be too cautious.

   "One more note. I'll take a look."

   Akihiko Kuroda said calmly.

  Akihiko Kuroda quickly ordered the traders to check the recent economic situation in Norway and Europe, as well as some economic news in Norway.

  The result of the query is Norway's economy and exchange rate. Compared with Europe and the euro, it has been stronger recently.

  Be aware that after the new century, Nasdaq is implicated in the bursting of the Internet bubble.

  The U.S. stock market is in mourning. The U.S. stock market is also a barometer of the world economy.

  The barometer is not good, and of course the world economy will also be affected. Therefore, the world economy as a whole has experienced a slight decline recently.

  Europe is not immune either.

  But Norway has gone the other way during this period, and its economy is generally much better than its neighbors.

  During this period of time, Norway's economy has gone against the general trend of the world, and it has actually been on the rise.

  As Norway’s sovereign currency, the Norwegian Krone is naturally on the rise.

  A week ago, USD/NOK was 7.6190.

  The current level of around 7.6100 is the result of its continued strength.

   Before being suppressed, it was even 7.6049.

  After Akihiko Kuroda finished reading it, he was very satisfied.

  Because he discovered that the Norwegian krone will continue to strengthen this time with a high probability

  Its power mainly comes from Norway, because of the discovery of two new oil fields and three new gas fields.

  These five oil and gas deposits are still very high in content.

   So much so that it drives the country's overall GDP.

   This is undoubtedly a big guarantee for the Norwegian krone.

  Akihiko Kuroda decided to give it a try.

   "Mobilize funds. Let's enter the market. Short USD/NOK, this time we must hit these rice animals hard. Let these hateful white pigs know that we are not easy to mess with."

   Akihiko Kuroda said calmly.

   "Master Kuroda, how much money should we enter?"

   "$1 billion. Accessed via margin account."

"OK."

  Traders operate quickly.

  A billion-dollar margin account is operated. If someone provides leverage, it can reach billions of dollars or tens of billions of dollars.

   It's just that the risks are high.

  If you use your own funds to enter, the loss that 10 billion US dollars of your own funds can bear is all, no matter how much it falls, it will not fall.

  But if it is a margin transaction, sometimes a few points may lead to liquidation. Once the position is liquidated, there will be no particles left.

  Akihiko Kuroda’s request for a leverage multiple of 1 billion margin was quickly answered after sending it out.

  Because of his elder brother, Akihiko Kuroda has a high status in Neon Bank.

  The bank quickly approved the application.

  Ten times of leverage, after entering this plate, it will be an empty order of 10 billion US dollars.

   This caused the exchange rate of the US dollar to Norwegian krone, which had risen by dozens of points, to suddenly fall again, even falling by more than the number of points that rose.

  Looking at his own results, Akihiko Kuroda showed a smug smile.

  Now he wants to see how these rice animals respond.

  If the other party opens a position again, he will continue to suppress.

  If the other party does not increase their positions, Norway's own domestic economic situation will cause the USD/NOK to fall by itself.

   In any case, it is bearish for USD/NOK.

  Akihiko Kuroda and his team can profit.

  (end of this chapter)